by Hector-Arturo Ruiz

Created on: November 23, 2008   Last Updated: June 04, 2010

Tests are ridiculous! Why our schools make kids take them? They make no sense, as far I am concerned. They think standardized tests where you fill in the little bubble answers tell everything about what a student know. I don't get how they think that could be, but they do and we parents are helpless or the police come and say we could be arrested for truancy, so it's a road to nowhere.

If kids do not get good test scores, schools do not get money, which is a big problem. With kids in school seven or eight hours every day, they need money to keep them busy that long and pay the teachers responsible for those kids.

Kids need to learn to visit libraries more and get some books to read. If they would do more reading, they would like school more, and would do better when they are forced to take those fill in the bubble tests once per year or twice depending on the kinds of the testing they do and the school and what the government of this great country forces them into doing.

Librarians can make it fun for kids to read, like putting bean bag chairs in libraries, hanging up colorful posters, and getting in new books that children enjoy especially those about characters, TV shows, movies, cartoons, comics, animals, people that kids think are cool and idolize. If a librarian finds out what children in one school like to read, they can put those books on the shelves and help kids to find them. Librarians can be important in getting children and students to read, that's one-hundred percent for sure. you can't disagree with me there. If and when librarians motivate these television, video game, guitar hero, cellular phone text messaging addicted kids to read lines of words in books, it's amazing and I suppose with a lot of reading these kids might get good enough test scores to make the schools and the governments happy. You can thank the librarians for students who get higher test scores just because they starting doing this simple thing that you call reading.

Parents can buy books for their kids and make them sit at the table and make them read for some time every night. They can quit buying them those video games that encourage kids to do do bad things like robbing and shooting people. Books are better than those by far. You can't argue with me there either.

Librarians don't have to go to all the school and workshop training that teachers and principals do, but they are important for a school to have. They organize all the books, buy new ones, check them out to kids, and track them down at the end of the year to save the school money and not have to buy more books than they have to. When librarians make reading something kids want to do they get better grades, and score better on the tests they have to take.

Learn more about this author, Hector-Arturo Ruiz.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.